{"product_id":"ghosts-dance-in-an-empty-house-and-other-stories-hardback-9781496246158","title":"Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories (Hardback) 9781496246158","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGhosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam R. Seaburg (Edited by), Laurel B. Sercombe (Edited by), Jay Miller (Edited by), Elizabeth D. Jacobs (Compiled by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496246158\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e236 pages, 6 photographs, 3 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The volume brings out stories that have otherwise been kept in private academic collections and library special collections, making it now possible to return them to the Upper Coquille community and share them with a broader audience as well. This book will appeal to both scholarly and broader audiences, those interested in Upper Coquille storytelling traditions, and the Upper Coquille community.\"—Jolynn Amrine, editor of \u003ci\u003eChehalis Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a fascinating work. The original narratives, the background of the collector Elizabeth Jacobs, all combined with William Seaburg's commentary, make it a scholarly and engaging book.\"—Charles R. Menzies, author of \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e comprises forty-five narratives dictated by Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian residing on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, during the fall of 1935. Elizabeth D. Jacobs transcribed the stories from Thompson and selected some for intended publication. In addition to those Jacobs chose, William R. Seaburg combed through Thompson's field notebooks and chose a handful of additional stories, as well as several cognate texts Thompson told to Smithsonian Institution linguist John Peabody Harrington in 1942 and cognates from other Athabaskan and from non-Athabaskan groups in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis companion volume to \u003ci\u003ePitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian\u003c\/i\u003e, which collected Thompson's myths and folktales, focuses on Thompson's semi-historical tales, narratives of historical events, ethnographic texts, and personal and family stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Foreward\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Texts and Commentaries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Semi-Historical Tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ghosts Dance in an Empty House\u003cbr\u003e They Gambled\u003cbr\u003e Night Walker\u003cbr\u003e Night People\u003cbr\u003e Two Experiences with Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e Good, White Bird\u003cbr\u003e Grizzly Power and the Umpqua War\u003cbr\u003e Bears Are Avenged\u003cbr\u003e Thunder\u003cbr\u003e Wealth Encounter\u003cbr\u003e Dead Person’\u003cbr\u003es Snot is Money\u003cbr\u003e Ghost (A Fast Runner Races)\u003cbr\u003e A Man Shot a Large Snake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Historical Event Narratives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First Encounter with White Men\u003cbr\u003e Killing Indian Doctors\u003cbr\u003e A Woman Doctor Was Killed for Poisoning\u003cbr\u003e A Man Was Able to Kill a Grizzly Bear\u003cbr\u003e A Man Dodges a Grizzly Bear\u003cbr\u003e Grizzly and Panther\u003cbr\u003e A Bear Swears at a Hunter\u003cbr\u003e An Attempted Raid\u003cbr\u003e Slaves: Runaway and Hunchback\u003cbr\u003e Klikitats and Slaves\u003cbr\u003e Resuscitation\u003cbr\u003e The Big Fire\u003cbr\u003e A Bear in a Boat\u003cbr\u003e Encounter with Baby Seals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Ethnographic Texts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hunting Beaver\u003cbr\u003e Description of a Make-Doctor Dance\u003cbr\u003e A Doctoring Session at Siletz (1)\u003cbr\u003e A Doctoring Session at Siletz (2)\u003cbr\u003e A Woman Doctor Doctors\u003cbr\u003e A Girl Was Reluctant to Marry an Old Man\u003cbr\u003e Sibling Incest\u003cbr\u003e Chief’\u003cbr\u003es Younger Brother\u003cbr\u003e A Doctoring Session\u003cbr\u003e Rattlesnake Doctors\u003cbr\u003e A Suicide\u003cbr\u003e A Man Visits the Frogs\u003cbr\u003e How the People Obtained Flint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Personal and Family Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coquelle Thompson’\u003cbr\u003es Encounter with Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e Coquelle Thompson’\u003cbr\u003es Grandmother Was Mauled by a Grizzly\u003cbr\u003e The Seal Wife\u003cbr\u003e Coquelle Thompson Is Doctored\u003cbr\u003e Coquelle Thompson’\u003cbr\u003es Wife Is Doctored, Dies\u003cbr\u003e The Old Hunter\u003cbr\u003e A Hunt Coquelle Thompson Was On\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003e References Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600323014936,"sku":"9781496246158","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ghosts-dance-in-an-empty-house-and-other-stories-hardback-9781496246158","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}